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BREAKING NEWS: A judge has issued an arrest warrant for Michael Jackson because he has not shown up for his trial on time.

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Heres the Article from AOL

Trial Resumes After Arrest Threat
Defense Attorney Says Pop Star Has Back Problem
By TIM MOLLOY, AP



Reuters


Defense attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr., talks on the phone while waiting for Michael Jackson to arrive at court Thursday.

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SANTA MARIA, Calif. (March 10) - Michael Jackson arrived late to his child molestation trial Thursday to face a judge who threatened to arrest him and revoke his $3 million bail, but the judge took no action against the singer in open court and the pop star's accuser resumed testifying, saying the singer once gave him wine.

Superior Court Judge Rodney S. Melville had issued an arrest warrant when Jackson failed to arrive on time, but told defense attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. he would hold it for one hour.

Mesereau, who told the judge Jackson had suffered a severe back problem and was being treated at a hospital, paced outside court and talked on his cell phone until the singer arrived, a few minutes past the deadline.

Jackson walked in gingerly, dressed in a jacket over pajamas and looked distressed.

Attorneys met with the judge in chambers before court resumed and Melville addressed the jury.

''Mr. Jackson had a medical - problem and it was necessary for me to order his appearance,'' Melville said.

He said he didn't want jurors to draw any negative inferences from the fact that Jackson did not appear or that the judge had to order him to appear.

''The trial is going to go forward. In doing that I'm not expressing any opinion about the case or Mr. Jackson or the district attorney,'' Melville said.

Jackson spokeswoman Raymone K. Bain said outside court that Jackson woke up around 4:30 a.m. and his ''back gave out on him.'' She said he notified his attorney and others and was rushed to an emergency room, arriving at 5:45 a.m. She said Jackson had wanted to be in court to hear from his accuser, who took the stand Wednesday.

''I talked to Mr. Jackson about four or five times yesterday. He was not intimated at all. He is wanting to be in court every day. This is about his life. This is not a joke to him.

''He knows the seriousness of this. He's not play acting,'' she said.

The 15-year-old accuser returned to the stand and testified about a TV documentary in which he appeared with Jackson, showed them holding hands and then putting his head on Jackson's shoulder. The boy was a 13-year-old cancer survivor at the time.

The documentary, aired on Feb. 6, 2003, raised a furor because of Jackson's comment that he shared his bed with children. The prosecution claims Jackson molested the boy after the documentary aired and conspired to hold the boy's family captive to get them to rebut the documentary.

The accuser's 14-year-old brother has testified he twice saw Jackson molesting his sleeping brother in the master bedroom at Jackson's Neverland ranch.

The accuser testified that Jackson suggested they hold hands in the documentary and he spontaneously put his head on the singer's shoulder.

''I was really close to Michael and he was like my best friend. I just put my head on his shoulder,'' he testified.

The boy also testified that Jackson invited him to Miami because he wanted the boy to be with him when he held a news conference to respond to the documentary.

The boy said Jackson was initially reluctant to let his mother come along but agreed when the boy said he might not be allowed to go otherwise.

He described several private meetings with Jackson in Miami on the day the documentary aired, including one in which he did an ''audition'' for the singer in which he pretended to be a student in trouble and Jackson played his principal.

He also said Jackson gave him wine in a Diet Coke can, saying it would help him relax amid all the media reports about the documentary.

''He told me if I had ever heard of Jesus juice. He told me, 'Like you know how Jesus drank wine? We call it Jesus juice,''' he said.

''I drank a little bit of it and I told him it tasted ugly. ... He said he knew I was stressed out from all the media stuff going on and the Jesus juice would relax me.''

The boy said he had previously sipped wine in church.

AP Special Correspondent Linda Deutsch contributed to this report.


03-10-05 1350EST